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pueblos. They are villages typical of the jjlains of southern Arizona 

 built in caves of a mountain environment. Their masonry is com- 

 paratively poor, with a tendency to the horizontal, but has com- 

 ponent stones arranged in irregular courses, the mason relying more 

 on natural cleavage than artificial pecking or dressing. Plastering 

 still remains on the outer surfaces in several cases. In one of these 

 the roof is in place and well preserved, as shown in figure 88. A 

 remarkable pictograph from this region is shown in figure 89. 



Fig. 89. — Indian inscripiioiis. Cherry Creek, Sierra Anclia, Apache 

 Arizona. Photograph by Mark Daniels. 



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Among many instructive sites of ruin- in the I lovenweep district 

 is the bluff where the Yellow Jacket Canyon enters the McElmo. 

 ( )n top of this high ])romoniory there are enclosures built of mega- 

 liths set on edge, ajjparently of the -ame cyclopean t\]je of construc- 

 tion that characterizes larger buildings descriljed i)\- Jackson on 

 Montezuma Mesa. L'tah. We are evidently here on the flividing line, 

 geographically, between the region of stone slab houses and the 

 horizontal masonry of the Pueblo culture, such as is found on the 

 Mcbdmo. They are believed to represent an archaic masonry older 

 than tb.e ki\a tyjje of Mesa \'erde. 



